Re: [OCLUG-Tech] a compelling application for bind mounts?

2013-12-26 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Similar to chroots, I use bind mounts for containers. This is useful to give all containers access to the same /home or for distributing /etc/resolv.conf. The latter is actually a very cool use case of bind mounts... you can bind a file, not just a directory. -- Sent from my Nexus 4. On Dec 26, 2

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Directory Access

2013-11-26 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Directories must have the x bit to be traversed or entered. -- Sent from my Nexus 4. On Nov 22, 2013 1:05 AM, "Paul" wrote: > With regards to the screen dump listed under CODE: below, > would someone be so kind as to share with me why I am unable to access the > Recipes.0 directory? > > Both us

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] script to automate setting of screensaver

2013-03-24 Thread Bart Trojanowski
So I re-read your request and I got it wrong. The settings you seek should be accessible via gconf-editor / gconftool / gconftool-2, but I cannot seem to find the screensaver fields on my system. Maybe you'll have better luck. You can try this... $ gconftool-2 -R / | grep saver and then f

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] IMAP Login

2013-01-21 Thread Bart Trojanowski
There are several ways to encrypt the session, but assuming that a session is not encrypted you could do something like described in this link: http://www.anta.net/misc/telnet-troubleshooting/imap.shtml and more here http://famousphil.com/blog/2011/11/talking-imap-over-a-telnet-connection/ I am

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] running QEMU without KVM, a newbie question

2012-06-15 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Your understanding is correct. KVM provides an acceleration path for QEMU. KVM used QEMU as a base because the hard part of virtualization is to emulate hardware devices, and QEMU already did this well when KVM started. Unfortunately, I don't know of a good writeup on how to disable acceleration

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] where in ottawa to buy ubiquiti routerstation pro?

2012-04-27 Thread Bart Trojanowski
I know these guys used to carry it... http://www.xagyl.com/store_ca/home.php ... maybe you would take an alternative. On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 16:02, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Paul Belanger wrote: > >> On 12-04-27 03:47 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> > >> >    i'm interested

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] anyone using DB2 on linux?

2012-01-29 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Fortunately google paid more attention than me... http://www.google.ca/search?q=oclug+db2 -Bart On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 14:06, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > I think we had a couple of talks on DB2 at OCLUG. I didn't pay enough > attention as to who gave it. > > > On Sun, J

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] anyone using DB2 on linux?

2012-01-29 Thread Bart Trojanowski
I think we had a couple of talks on DB2 at OCLUG. I didn't pay enough attention as to who gave it. On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 13:38, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > just curious about the prevalence of DB2 on linux locally. > > rday > > -- > > ==

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] a git (plumbing?) command to show all objects added by a commit?

2012-01-24 Thread Bart Trojanowski
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 13:32, Aidan Van Dyk wrote: > > does that sound about right? and is there a single command that > > would show all of that new content? thanks. > > I think the easiest way would be to pack everything before you start, > and then after your commit, just look at all the l

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] SD card

2012-01-21 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Flash needs bad-block remapping, block refresh, and write levelling. In the case of a USB attached flash storage these functions clearly get done in the USB device... in some sort of "processor" or ASIC. I always thought that MMC/SD devices worked the same. Are you saying that a SD card does this

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Apache sercuity question

2011-12-13 Thread Bart Trojanowski
2011/12/13 Jean-François Bilodeau > It should, but if the probe was successful with > /?file=../../../../../../proc/self/environ%00, that tells me that the index > may be a script (ie: index.php instead of index.html). > > Another possibility is that the query string was indeed ignored, and there

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Apache sercuity question

2011-12-13 Thread Bart Trojanowski
2011/12/13 Jean-François Bilodeau > May I recommend that instead of banning, you close the security hole? > Disable whatever is allowing content access via ?xxx=. > > Doesn't that mean stopping apache? I am not a web developer of any means, but I think you can pass a ?xxx= request to index.html.

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] handbrake?

2011-11-19 Thread Bart Trojanowski
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:22, John C Nash wrote: > Has anyone got any experience with handbrake dvd->mpeg package. I've had some success converting things down to be playable on an android tablet with handbrake (on Debian). In summary: awful name, cumbersome UI, but great results. The trick fo

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] options for equivalent C++ dev setup under linux & windows?

2011-11-02 Thread Bart Trojanowski
> 2011/11/2, Robert P. J. Day : >>   i've been asked to teach a C++ class later this month where all of >> the students will have their own windows laptops and there's still >> some debate as to what they'll have to install to have a usable C++ >> development environment. My first thought was "ssh

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] anyone have any experience with ARM-based desktop units?

2011-10-30 Thread Bart Trojanowski
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:50, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > looks seriously cool and might be fun to experiment with, but i recall > reading as i was surfing that one of its drawbacks is that it doesn't > support playing flash. > >  i'm confused -- how could that be a hardware issue?  or am i just >

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG Invite to Free Qt Seminar Nov. 10

2011-10-26 Thread Bart Trojanowski
2011/10/26 Jean-François Bilodeau  > Apologies if I missed it, but at what time? >From the website quoted in the email: > Registration and continental breakfast begin at 8:30 and we'll conclude by > 5:00. -Bart > >>    *From:* James > >>    *To:* > >>    *Cc:* li...@oclug.on.ca > >>    *Sent:

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] why does my new ASUS laptop not run the memory test?

2011-09-21 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Google tells me that you need a BIOS upgrade. Something about USB emulation that prevents certain kinds of BIOS services from working. I would have thought that grub would be the one doing all the disk IO for memtest, and that memtest would not actually talk to the disk. If that is true then it'

[OCLUG-Tech] Fwd: Hack/Reduce big data hackathon in Ottawa August 13th

2011-08-03 Thread Bart Trojanowski
FYI. A very interesting geek event is coming to town later this month. -- Forwarded message -- From: Riku Seppala Subject: Hack/Reduce big data hackathon in Ottawa August 13th We're a startup from Montreal heavily into NLP, Machine Learning and big data.(Hopper Travel) We do Ha

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Demo your fave?

2011-07-15 Thread Bart Trojanowski
On Jul 15, 2011 3:31 PM, "Rob Echlin" wrote: > Is anyone here using the mythical Rat Poison? I asked a group of people from the former Neterion, and haven't got anyone interested in tlaking about it. (yet) Ratpoison is rather old and there are dozens of keyboard friendly tiling window managers th

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] ipv6 - the rest of the story

2011-07-12 Thread Bart Trojanowski
them for IPv6. -Bart On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 14:10, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > I, or better yet MCR, could talk to some of these questions. > > WRT programming, it all depends on the language really.  Networking > abstractions differ a lot from language to language. > > I could

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] ipv6 - the rest of the story

2011-07-12 Thread Bart Trojanowski
I, or better yet MCR, could talk to some of these questions. WRT programming, it all depends on the language really. Networking abstractions differ a lot from language to language. I could talk briefly about BSD socket interface (ie libc support for IPv6). -Bart On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 14:02,

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] a sign of the apocalypse

2011-07-04 Thread Bart Trojanowski
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 00:34, Rob Echlin wrote: > Not Linux? I think what you are asking here is "Android is not Linux?" And technically it's not. Linux is a kernel. Android is a platform. I cannot possibly dispute that Android is based on Linux -- it is. Every Android device out there uses a

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] a sign of the apocalypse

2011-07-04 Thread Bart Trojanowski
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 15:40, Paul B wrote: > Cute. I like the quote, but isn't Android as open source as OSx (I've heard > it said over and over that Apple somehow got away with closing their BSD > fork)? BSD license does not prevent closing of a fork. This is why we like the GPL. :-) And wh

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] any interest in a local kernel programmingspecialinterest group?

2011-05-11 Thread Bart Trojanowski
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:30, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >  just to make sure folks understand what i'm proposing (and i suspect > there will be a few more posts as i nail this down), i'm not looking > (at least not yet) at starting an official group with a charter and > mission statement or anythin

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] what is the "uname" variation that shows a 32-bit install on 64-bit system?

2011-05-08 Thread Bart Trojanowski
2011/5/9 Peter Sjöberg > > > On 05/06/2011 02:49 PM, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 18:24, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > > >> Not quite what you intended, but how about: > >>        file $(which uname) > >> > > I often

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] what is the "uname" variation that shows a 32-bit install on 64-bit system?

2011-05-06 Thread Bart Trojanowski
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 18:24, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > Not quite what you intended, but how about: >file $(which uname) > I often do exactly this with '/bin/ls' to test the OS bitness. Another alternative is to use gcc -dumpmachine ... which is available on all systems that matter :-

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] anyone out there experienced at cyanogenmod'ing their phone?

2011-05-04 Thread Bart Trojanowski
All my experience is on the N1. I can tell you that all phones have a wiki page that takes you to the most recent info. Here is the wiki page for your phone: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=HTC_Desire_HD -Bart On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:48, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i recently p

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Ottawa IPv6 Summit - April 29th

2011-03-24 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Hello all, I just wanted to update everyone and tell you that we posted the list of speaker list today. http://ipv6summit.ca/index.php/v6/2011#Presentations Please spread the word. -Bart On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 16:51, James Puderer wrote: > Hello, > > As you may already know IPv4 addresses are

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux-based shared hosting?

2011-03-23 Thread Bart Trojanowski
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 20:01, Martin Settle wrote: > ( on a side note, ncftp is a fantastic command-line ftp > client, allowing recursive transfers, which are critical for any slightly > complex website). On a side side note, try lftp... it beats the pants off ncftp. Amongst my favorite lftp fe

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] rackmount cases in Ottawa

2011-03-23 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Bill, I've gotten mine from shoprbc.com. I email sales@ and tell them what I am looking for (spec and price), they do all the research and tell me what they can get. It's awesome service. -Bart On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 16:43, Bill Strosberg wrote: > All: > > Looking for recommendations for supp

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] anyone out there using a production publishing toolchain?

2011-02-16 Thread Bart Trojanowski
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: >> My recommendation would be Latex hands down. > > It sounds like Docbook and Latex would be two great meeting tutorial > topics.  I've just started diving into Latex and am impressed by the > output.  I'd like to learn a bit more about t

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] migrating to IPV6

2011-02-02 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Last night I mentioned a book I read when learning IPv6, which I thought explained things well. Here it is: http://www.runningipv6.net/ -Bart On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:26 PM, piper.guy1 wrote: >> Can anyone recommend a public

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] migrating to IPV6

2011-02-01 Thread Bart Trojanowski
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:26 PM, piper.guy1 wrote: > Can anyone recommend a publication for transitioning to IPV6? I enjoyed going through the HE.net certification process. It tells you what you have to do next, and at the end of each "lesson" gives you a certificate of completion :) http://ipv6

[OCLUG-Tech] Invitation to CloudCamp Ottawa November 8th

2010-10-29 Thread Bart Trojanowski
I was asked to forward this invitation to the OCLUG membership. -Bart -- Forwarded message -- I'd like to invite your Linux users group to CloudCamp Ottawa, November 8 at 5:30 at Hampton Inn and Conference Centre. http://www.cloudcamp.org/ottawa This is a free unconference event

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux platform differences

2010-10-27 Thread Bart Trojanowski
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:26 PM, piper.guy1 wrote: >> Well, ethtool is a linux-specific tool to poke at network devices, so >> I actually would expect it to include linux/* headers directly.   I >> wouldn't hold much hope of compiling that on windows. > > I never said that I'm compiling under Wind

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] informing the masses of IPv6 [Was: Canadian domain registrar with IPv6 support]

2010-09-07 Thread Bart Trojanowski
2010/9/7 Peter Sjoberg : >> > It'd be nice if we could get TekSavvy to give a talk on their IPv6 >> > deployment to homes.  Not to mention good publicity for them :) > > Lon time ago I asked teksavvy about ipv6 plans but the answer was "we > working on it" and I could see they been working on it fo

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] informing the masses of IPv6 [Was: Canadian domain registrar with IPv6 support]

2010-09-06 Thread Bart Trojanowski
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: >    Bart> It'd be nice if we could get TekSavvy to give a talk on their >    Bart> IPv6 deployment to homes.  Not to mention good publicity for >    Bart> them :) > > Let's ask them! Don't we usually have a few TekSavvy members in our mee

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] informing the masses of IPv6 [Was: Canadian domain registrar with IPv6 support]

2010-09-06 Thread Bart Trojanowski
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Prof. John C Nash wrote: > Let's talk tomorrow after meeting (assuming Bart is coming). We haven't > arranged a beer sig, but there are several places nearby. Will depend a bit > on density of students (which folk can interpret in many possible ways!) John, please

[OCLUG-Tech] informing the masses of IPv6 [Was: Canadian domain registrar with IPv6 support]

2010-09-06 Thread Bart Trojanowski
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Prof. John C Nash wrote: > On 09/06/2010 08:48 AM, Bart Trojanowski wrote: >> Panic! Only 270-some days of IPv4 left! :P > > This may be worth pushing as an "event" for OCLUG and others (GOSLING?), say > on the "only 6 months

[OCLUG-Tech] Canadian domain registrar with IPv6 support

2010-09-06 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Panic! Only 270-some days of IPv4 left! :P Can someone suggest a domain name registrar that operates in Canada, who does IPv6? I'd like them to support IPv6 glue records. Extra credit if their web page is reachable via IPv6. Been quite happy using domainsatcost.ca for the last 4-5 years, but th

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] wget passphrase

2010-03-31 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Rafael Roquetto [100331 13:32]: > 2010/3/31 piper.guy1 > > > I need to use 'wget' to do a secure file download. It works great at > > the command line. Unfortunately wget asks for the PEM passphrase. > > However this will eventually be part of an embedded application so the > > passphrase prom

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] iPad in Ottawa?

2010-03-06 Thread Bart Trojanowski
> A friend of my buddy bought an Appl-ish iPad in Ottawa about 3 weeks > ago, from a phone kiosk in an Ottawa mall for $300. So... can we have some more information? Pictures, location of this store, etc. -Bart -- WebSig: http://www.jukie.net/~bart/sig/

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Re:

2010-01-20 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Charles Nadeau [100109 13:24]: > I finally found the problem by looking at dmesg. On boot, MadWifi renames > ath0 to ath1! Why? I don't know... Could it be udev? Look at /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules It is safe to remove rules from this file. On next boot the system will no longe

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] [Fwd: Re]Linux driver?]

2009-12-23 Thread Bart Trojanowski
I've had pretty good experience with HP PSC. The last one I bought was B&W laser, and it was a few years back. In general, I recommend picking a few printers you like based on features and price, then going to http://www.openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi and confirming that it works with OSS driv

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] MythTV questions, anyone?

2009-12-18 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Clayton, thanks for doing the presentation, I found it most informative. I picked up a WinTV-HVR-850 and will be setting up Myth on a BeagleBoard. Unfortunately, by now I've forgotten everything you said. Could you post your slides somewhere? Cheers, -Bart * Clayton Smith [091205 11:08]: > H

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Re: Linux Digest, Vol 59, Issue 9

2009-12-01 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Eeeek! * Bart Trojanowski [091201 15:40]: > Mark Lord write a sophisticated set of scripts that did this and some ^ ...must be a lack of coffee. I'll go to fix that now with my head hung in shame. > other optimizations so you could switch back and forth between a

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Re: Linux Digest, Vol 59, Issue 9

2009-12-01 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Mark Lord write a sophisticated set of scripts that did this and some other optimizations so you could switch back and forth between a fully R/O and R/W mounted system. http://rtr.ca/run_from_ram/ -Bart * Prof. John C Nash [091128 12:44]: > I was worried about the "wearout" of SSD in m

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] dma in Ubuntu?

2009-10-18 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Ah, my bad. :) * Robert Echlin [091018 11:32]: > Hi Bart, > Thanks for the notes on sdparm. I didn't know about that. > > However, it was my system that found the dvd under /dev/scd0 > John was trying to access it as /dev/hda. > > Rob > > > > >

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] dma in Ubuntu?

2009-10-18 Thread Bart Trojanowski
John, hdparm is really meant for devices that are driven by ide and legacy ata drivers. If your cdrom shows up as /dev/scd0, then it's going through a subsystem of the Linux kernel that's responsible for SCSI. More specifically you're driving your cdrom with "libata" SCSI layer that makes IDE/AT

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Presentation Offer

2009-10-06 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Hi Jeff, I am CC'ing the board mailing list since they will have the final say. Personally, I think it would be great for you to give a talk on your project at one of our monthly meetings. Hope to see you there. Cheers, -Bart * Jeff Green [091005 20:33]: > Hi everyone, > > My name is Jeff Gree

[OCLUG-Tech] virtualization primer slides from last night

2009-10-02 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Thank you for coming yesterday to discuss virtualization with the OCLUG virtualization panel. The slides for my "virtualization primer" talk are available here: http://www.jukie.net/~bart/slides/virt-intro/ The source is also available here: http://git.jukie.net/virt-intro.git

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] arm gnu/linux cross compiler

2009-09-22 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Hi Carl, * Carl Heyendal [090921 22:13]: >> I also tried the Package Manager route. I'm running Ubuntu and I was >> going to use 'apt-get install ...' to install the cross compiler, but >> I also couldn't find the right repository to add that contained it. >> Can anyone help with this too? The

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] White spaces in 'C' /kernel programming??

2009-09-02 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Rafael Roquetto [090902 13:36]: > > Which editor is best for correctly editing spaces and tabs? > > emacs or vi(m)? > > Both. I agree with Rafael, both are fine. You should not select between vim and emacs based on just this criterion. Since I have selected vim already, I did some tuning on

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] White spaces in 'C' /kernel programming??

2009-09-02 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* William Case [090902 12:12]: > So, why the concern over extra white spaces in 'C' code? If you have a code base with such a large rate of change as the Linux kernel, you don't want to see patches that only modify spaces. It's confusing and provides no technical benefit. The standard is strict

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Finding a Linux Kernel Panic

2009-08-13 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Damian Gerow [090812 21:03]: > : Finally there is kgdb. This allows you to connect a debugger to a > : running kernel. kgdb can work over serial (kgdboc) or ethernet > : (module kgdboe). Unfortunately, the kgdboe is not available in mainline > : kernels, and I don't know if SuSE ships it. >

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Finding a Linux Kernel Panic

2009-08-12 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Damian Gerow [090811 20:55]: > So, how does one go about proving these are kernel panics? There are a few ways. > (The most obvious route, attach a serial console, is sadly an unviable > option in this case. The reasons why are long and dry, so I'll save you all > the boring details.) One of

[OCLUG-Tech] Re: git aliases, was: acceptable bourne shell function names

2009-07-04 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Michael P. Soulier [090704 09:32]: > Can I embed one here? I haven't figured out how to get a semicolon into a git > alias. [alias] foo = !sh -c " foo ; bar ; ... " -Bart -- WebSig: http://www.jukie.net/~bart/sig/ _

[OCLUG-Tech] Re: git aliases, was: acceptable bourne shell function names

2009-07-03 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Michael P. Soulier [090703 19:50]: > How would you make a git alias out of this? > > # Simulate hg's addremove command. > git_addremove() > { > git add -A || return > removed_files=$(git ls-files --deleted -z) > if [ -n "$removed_files" ]; then > echo "$removed_files" | xarg

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] acceptable bourne shell function names

2009-07-03 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Michael P. Soulier [090703 19:41]: > Looks like the arguments to ls-files aren't quite right. > > usage: git ls-files [-z] [-t] [-v] > (--[cached|deleted|others|stage|unmerged|killed|modified])* [ --ignored ] > [--exclude=] [--exclude-from=] [ > --exclude-per-directory= ] [--exclude-standard] [

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] acceptable bourne shell function names

2009-06-30 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Michael P. Soulier [090630 21:48]: > git_dirstatus() > { > if which git 1>/dev/null 2>&1 > then > for dir in * > do > if [ -d $dir/.git ]; then > echo "Checking $dir" > (cd $dir && git status) > echo >

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] acceptable bourne shell function names

2009-06-30 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Michael P. Soulier [090630 20:58]: > On 30/06/09 Bart Trojanowski said: > > > Is "do some work" short enough that you can set up an alias instead of a > > function? > > > > git config --global alias.dirstatus "do some work" &

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] acceptable bourne shell function names

2009-06-30 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Michael P. Soulier [090626 18:59]: > I'm having an odd issue with my bash config. In it I'm defining functions like > > git-dirstatus() > { > do some work > } Is "do some work" short enough that you can set up an alias instead of a function? git config --global alias.dirstatus "do

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Possible dying graphics adapter

2009-06-14 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Bruce Miller [090614 15:25]: > I have a Dell 2405FPW wide-screen LCD monitor. It is connected to the > computer through a 4-port Linksys KVM switch which I have had for a > long time but which, to date, has not given problems. The only other thing I could suggest is to start up w/o kde and disp

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Possible dying graphics adapter

2009-06-14 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Bruce Miller [090614 14:54]: > I would be surprised if this image were over-taxing my graphics > adapter, but perhaps I am not judging well the requirements of modern > DEs. This is the only image I have run recently which gives this kind > of problem. I don't know if I understand the symptom

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] rsync xintd

2009-05-01 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Bruce Harding [090501 10:22]: > I've read a number of howto for using rsync --daemon option in a ubuntu > installation. Most call for intd or xintd, however a default ubuntu install > does not come with these. I think you mean xinetd, that should still be there. Just apt-get install xinetd

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Re: photo captioning

2009-04-26 Thread Bart Trojanowski
John, I've never used it, although I really should :) jhead supports the following options: -dcDelete comment field (as left by progs like Photoshop & Compupic) -ceEdit comment field. Uses environment variable 'editor' to determine which editor to use. If edito

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux help request

2009-04-10 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Hi David, I personally don't know the answer to your question. But I would suggest that you take it to the ubuntu mailing list. We do have some Ubuntu users here, but... Once you find the right Ubuntu mailing list, you can also CC the maintainer of the xserver-xorg-video-* package you're using.

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] How to find extended system information?

2009-04-09 Thread Bart Trojanowski
John, in regards to > - possibly other stuff few others that I don't think anyone else mentioned: lsmod lspci lsusb lspcmcia lsscsi # includes SATA devices Most of the above take options, like -v, see respective man pages on how to get more info out of them. -Bart --

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] How to find extended system information?

2009-04-09 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* John C Nash [090409 12:22]: > - OS version, by which I mean not just the "uname -a" stuff, but also > whether I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 or Debian Lenny. run lsb_release, if you have it. grepping files in /etc otherwise. > - Processor (uname seems to be a bit sketchy on this) cat /proc/cpuinf

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Problem with a raid array at boot time

2009-03-20 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Charles Nadeau [090320 21:16]: > I found a file with the name of the aliases to these modules. > I put them in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and everything is fine, > like before. Happy to hear. > Case closed! > Thanks a lot for your help! You're welcome. -Bart --

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Problem with a raid array at boot time

2009-03-20 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Charles Nadeau [090320 20:53]: > Here is what I get when I compile "the Gentoo way": > > Ottawa linux # make -j5 && make -j5 modules_install > scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/x86/Kconfig > LD [M] drivers/md/md-mod.o > LD [M] drivers/md/md-mod.ko > INSTALL drivers/md/md-mod.ko > > Is it

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Problem with a raid array at boot time

2009-03-20 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Charles Nadeau [090320 19:40]: > > Was the array in a good state in /proc/mdstat ? > > My STUPID mistake: I forgot to start the array before mounting it. Pfew! > > > I'll try again with both AHCI and MD as modules this time. > > > > I am hopeful about this option. > > After booting and doing

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Problem with a raid array at boot time

2009-03-20 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Charles Nadeau [090320 18:33]: > I set both to "y", make -j5 && make -j5 modules_install (as per > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=7#doc_chap3as > I my distro is Gentoo) I gave you instructions :) > >make oldconfig > >grep -e CONFIG_MD -e C

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Problem with a raid array at boot time

2009-03-20 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Rosberg, Michael [090320 15:53]: > Yes, but as you pointed out in a previous post, the SATA modules were > not compiled into the custom kernel. > > My suggestion may be a long shot but only takes a single reboot to > try. It worked for me when I upgraded to FC10 and encountered the > noted bug

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Problem with a raid array at boot time

2009-03-20 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Rosberg, Michael [090320 14:15]: > > Since upgrading from 2.6.25r7 to 2.6.27r8 my RAID-5 array doesn't > > come up correctly at boot time. Only the first 4 of the 8 drives > > appear as members of the array at boot time. I have to add the last > > 4 manually before starting the array. > > Suspe

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Problem with a raid array at boot time

2009-03-20 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Charles Nadeau [090319 22:35]: > > Do you boot with an initrd or do you have a custom kernel? > > I have a custom kernel You clearly don't boot off this raid array, and I can see that you have built MD and RAID modules into the kernel but left the ahci ones out. I suggest you either edit your

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Problem with a raid array at boot time

2009-03-19 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Charles Nadeau [090319 20:28]: > Here is /var/log/dmesg: Your problem is that the driver for the chipset, to which the latter 4 drives are connected, is loaded after the md/raid drivers. The drivers in question are: sata_nv: sda .. sde ahci: sdf .. sdi You'd have to force ahci

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Problem with a raid array at boot time

2009-03-19 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Charles Nadeau [090319 19:56]: > Since upgrading from 2.6.25r7 to 2.6.27r8 my RAID-5 array doesn't come up > correctly at boot time. Only the first 4 of the 8 drives appear as members > of the array at boot time. I have to add the last 4 manually before starting > the array. As far as I am conce

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] blocked on futex

2009-03-11 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Michael P. Soulier [090311 09:08]: > Looking at the glibc source it looks like futex() is primarily used in pthread > support, so maybe we've got a bug in our glibc. Futex is a locking primitive. Yes, pthreads mutexes are (probably) the primary consumer of this. While that could be that the b

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux Kernel Walkthrough screencasts

2008-12-04 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Bart Trojanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081204 15:03]: > I have also given ta talk at a local ruby group on Git. I am uploading > that now. I'll let you know when that's up. It's in 3 parts. Here is my git talk. http://tetraquark.jukie.net/bart/git/200807

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux Kernel Walkthrough screencasts

2008-12-04 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* ??arko ??ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081204 14:47]: > Bart, thanks a lot! And yes, I am interested in the Git talk also. > Earlier, I have downloaded first part of the walkthrough (three files, > called Presentation, Code 1 and Code 2; those names were form site, > not the original names of files

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux Kernel Walkthrough screencasts

2008-12-04 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Bart Trojanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081204 10:02]: > Anyway, I have backup CDs somewhere. I'll see if there is a place we > can post them. I found the CDs for Kernel Walkthrough #2 (boot process) and the Git Tutorial. I put up the first one here: http://tetraqua

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux Kernel Walkthrough screencasts

2008-12-04 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* ??arko ??ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081204 09:05]: > I'm a member of LUG from Novi Sad, Serbia. If that is OK with you, we > would like to play screencasts of your Linux Kernel Walkthroughs at > our meetings. Great. There is one errata that I would like to mention. In the booting talk, I mist

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Ubuntu

2008-11-18 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081118 16:14]: > On 18/11/08 Eric Brackenbury said: > > > What about an Ottawa Ubuntu / kubuntu etc group inside OCLUG ? > > > > Not wanting to fragment OCLUG hear but just thought it might be > > productive. > > I change distros like I change shirts. I

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] device driver magic number for ioctl() in linux

2008-11-04 Thread Bart Trojanowski
One more time... > > #define _IOC(dir,type,nr,size) \ > > (((0)<< 22) | \ For some reason I can neither add at 2am or before my 2nd cup of coffee. 16+14 is... (((dir) << 30) | \ > > ((size) << 16) | \ > > ((type) << 8) | \ > >

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] device driver magic number for ioctl() in linux

2008-11-04 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Bart Trojanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081104 10:06]: > #define _IOC(dir,type,nr,size) \ > (((0)<< 22) | \ that was supposed to read dir << 22. > ((size) << 16) | \ > ((type) << 8

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] device driver magic number for ioctl() in linux

2008-11-04 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Zhao, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081104 09:16]: > > Hi, Bart: > Thanks a lot for providing me the detailed information. I am writing > character device driver and using _IO, _IOW,_IOWR, _IOR macros in linux > 2.6 kernel. I did observe the problem if the magic number is greater > than 0xFF which ma

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] device driver magic number for ioctl() in linux

2008-11-03 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Zhao, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081103 20:12]: > Can we define the magic number with the value greater than 0xFF? Where > is this magic number used by linux kernel? In most cases it is not used by the kernel. Particularly, if you write a simple driver that does not fit into a larger hierarchy --

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Question about grep

2008-10-28 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Charles Nadeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081028 18:48]: > \a\b\c or d\picture1.jpg > \a\b\cord\picture2.jpg > \a\z\c or d\picture3.jpg > \a\bc\c or d\picture4.jpg > \a\bhhj\cor d\picture5.jpg Could it be getting confused because of the \\ ? Could you try to tr '\\' / first and then run your grep -v

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Sandisk Cruzer Profile fingerprint reading USB?

2008-10-27 Thread Bart Trojanowski
I thought of you, Jonh, when I came across this article today: http://lifehacker.com/5069054/battle-of-the-thumb-drive-linux-systems -Bart -- WebSig: http://www.jukie.net/~bart/sig/ ___ Linux mailing list Linux@list

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Debian help

2008-10-24 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081024 10:14]: > On Fri, October 24, 2008 10:07 am, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > > Let's start with this: > > > > > > what does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like? > > I replaced: > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sarg

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Debian help

2008-10-24 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Let's start with this: what does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like? what does /etc/debian_version say? what was the release of Debian that was originally installed on this system? I am guessing that you have 'stable' or 'testing' in your sources.list -- as opposed to potato/sarge/etch -- but

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] netbook

2008-10-20 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Raj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081020 14:10]: >> I was too, until I did some research and read a few reviews. Apparently >> the currently available drives don't live upto the theoretical >> possibilities of this tech. > > interesting. Got any links I can check out? http://www.tomshardware.com/review

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] netbook

2008-10-20 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Raj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081020 13:45]: > I was under the (mistaken?) impression that SSDs draw less power than a > regular HDD - one would think the motor and head drive alone would push > up the power consumption way beyond an SSD. I was too, until I did some research and read a few review

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] netbook

2008-10-20 Thread Bart Trojanowski
James, > I just need something cheap and portable for web browsing and email. For this usecase it's probably ok. I find typing on a small keyboard tough -- fat fingers :) I would suggest you try something that size before you commit, or don't expect to do a lot of typing on it. > Are there any

[OCLUG-Tech] [JOB] embedded linux

2008-09-25 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Please speak directly with David if interested. -Bart - Forwarded message from David DeAmelio - From: David DeAmelio Subject: Oxford International - Job Description Location: Ontario LOA: 6 months Skills: Requirements: - Computer Science or Computer Engin

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Re: GCC: Request for help to get cluster booting!

2008-09-18 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Richard Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080917 23:53]: > syslinux.cfg contains: > default sis900.zli > timeout 1 There is definitely no link between the syslinux and the file it needs to download. I don't exactly know if you have to specify one explicitly. With PXE that gets kicked off through D

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] [Fwd: Please help]

2008-09-17 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Nathan, I don't know anything about this printer, but generally LaserJet's are very well supported. It's possible that you may need newer packages than Fedora 8. Maybe this will help: http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_P1005 Maybe you should try 'foo2xqx'... whatev

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] GCC: Request for help to get cluster booting!

2008-09-16 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Richard Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080916 18:55]: > On the old web pages at: >http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > the USB keys with syslinux are still working (March 10-25) today but I > can't seem to get the /tftpboot setup on the server correct. I don't know anything about this g

[OCLUG-Tech] [Job] kernel and debian

2008-09-10 Thread Bart Trojanowski
- Forwarded message from Neil Hendrick - From: Neil Hendrick Subject: Search Help Request Hi Bart, I am only asking if you're aware of any of your peers who would fit into this rough profile: * General Linux knowledge * Strong kernel knowledge (2.6) Experience on how to

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